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"Freedom. The fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is."
"You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power."
"I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."
"At this point in my life, all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."
"Honor Thy Consumer"
"If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that."
"We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters."
"Death, Life, Birth..."
"I know. I know."
"Don't leave me here!"
"If you fall I catch you."
"Are there no true Scotsmen in the house? Those there English gerrunts are tramplin' all over my God-given rights! They've used me and my pals most direly. And we are in need of a wee bit of assistance!"
"You have to do whatever you can't not do."
"My father braved booby-trapped marshes and the wrath of generals for his journalistic integrity. What kind of daughter would I be if I bailed when things got a little tough?"
"Sixsmith, I do hope you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me."
"Nice to know the age of chivalry isn't dead."
"Proposition: I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet...I feel like something important has happened to me."
"Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity, and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, they can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born, and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction."
"This beach was once a cannibals' banqueting hall. Where the strong gorged on the weak, but the teeth, sir, they spat out like you or I would expel a cherry stone. Do you know the price a quarter pound of these will earn?"
"Do you ever think that the universe is against you?"
"The weak are meat and the strong do eat."
"Question one: What secret in Sixsmith's report would be worth killing him for? Question two: Is it reasonable to believe that they would kill again to protect that secret? And if so, question three: What the fuck am I doing here?"
"My dearest Sixsmith, I shot myself through the roof of my mouth this morning, with Vyvyan Ayrs' Luger. A true suicide is a paced disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'suicide is a coward's act'. Couldn't be further from the truth. Suicide takes tremendous courage."
"A tiger cannot change his stripes."
"If God created the world, how do we know what things we can change and what things must remain sacred and inviolable?"
"My parasite writhes at night, igniting spasms of pain, while visions and voices, obscene and monstrous, haunt me."
"And thus it was when I made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry Goose the man I hoped might cure me of my affliction."
"I've begun to fear that I may never hold my beloved Tilda in my arms again."
"I be no fish food Mr. Ewing."
"Then I stay here... I must. Mr. Ewing saved my life. It my duty."
"I don't know what I would have done had our paths not crossed."
"Pain strong, aye....Friends are more strong."
"Let Sonmi guide your heart."
"Trust Sonmi! Keep her warnin' with you, nail it to your memory."
"We are bound together from womb to tomb."
"I in trouble dead"
"They no hear I. They say “swim away home, nigger”, and throw I in drink"
"There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well."
"Bridge a'broken, hide below. Hands a'bleedin', can't let go. Enemy's sleeping, don't slit that throat."
"Don't let them say I killed myself for love. Had my infatuations, but we both know in our hearts who is the sole love of my short, bright life."
"I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so."
"A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair."
"Liam Neeson - Zeus"
"Ralph Fiennes - Hades"
"Sam Worthington - Perseus"
"Edgar Ramirez - Ares"
"You are Perseus, son of Zeus. 'Release the Kraken,' all of that."
"[smacks Perseus] Mutton head. Two days ago, I was trapped in a cell in a dungeon, admittedly, trying to escape— [to Andromeda] —unbecoming of the son of Poseidon— [back to Perseus] —but today I'm here, and I'm trying to save the universe. Jump in."
"Toby Kebbell - Agenor"
"You get an idea of who the major players are, and then they spend a modest amount of time shouting laughable dialogue at one another while being all but forced off the screen by visual effects. ... I found myself wondering, just for the heck of it, how the movie might have played with a more traditional approach. You know. Literate, concise dialogue. ... You know, that kind of stuff."